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Black Earth: A Family’s Journey from Enslavement to Reclamation

Civil Eats

In 2021, he carried out the ultimate act of reclamation, purchasing the plantation house and surrounding 2.5 Farming Through Four Generations In the early 19th century, Oakley Grove plantation was owned by a medical doctor named Lafayette Browne and his wife, Mary Ann Falcon Browne.

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21 New Books to Inspire the Movement for Sustainable Food Systems

Food Tank

Silvohorticulture : A Growers Guide to Integrating Trees into Crops by Ben Raskin and Andy Dibben Agroforestry can provide a range of benefits to a farm or garden, including improved soil, pest and nutrient management, biodiversity, and optimized yields. The Kidney and the Cane: Planetary Health and Plantation Labor in Nicaragua by Alex M.

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Southern Black Farmers Sow Rice and Reconciliation

Civil Eats

Created on Madagascar and practiced in about 60 countries today, SRI has been shown to increase grain yields, sometimes twofold. The team in Alexandria is testing 20 more varieties at their 17-acre farm, located on a former cotton plantation that serves as the central research hub for crop and equipment trials.

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How Centuries of Extractive Agriculture Helped Set the Stage for the Maui Fires

Civil Eats

But colonization, and the extractive agricultural systems that came with it, had a devastating impact on reshaping the landscape ecologically, culturally, and economically—not only depleting soils of fertility but making much of the island more fire-prone. Chinese contract laborers on a sugar plantation in 19th century Hawaii.

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Transforming the Delta

Food Environment and Reporting Network

Theyre as fertile as can be. The history of how this happenedhow one of the countrys most fertile farming regions became a knot of poverty, hunger, and racial injusticeis complicated and painful. Large plantations reemerged in the Delta, worked by sharecroppers rather than slaves. Thats not what happened along the Mississippi.

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Beyond Farm to Table: How Chefs Can Support Climate-Friendly Food Systems

Civil Eats

The majority of the world’s cocoa is sourced from West Africa, often harvested by children on vast plantations linked to widespread deforestation. Many of the staple “commodities” imported from overseas come from regions once covered by rainforests and other critical ecosystems that stabilize the climate. Take chocolate , for instance.

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Changing How We Farm Might Protect Wild Mammals—and Fight Climate Change

Civil Eats

Deer, for example, help cycle nutrients and fertilize soil. In addition, despite concerns that the sustainable practices that support mammals may reduce crop yields, some indications point to the opposite conclusion. “By (Photo CC-licensed by Brian Gratwick) Even negatively viewed mammals can be beneficial.

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